Watkins Harry O ZODIAC 601 XL
N9696 is a Watkins Harry O ZODIAC 601 XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Watkins Harry O
- Model
- ZODIAC 601 XL
- Serial number
- 6-5397
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO ZODIAC 601 XL
- Transponder code
- AD80BF (octal 53300277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 26, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00206079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ramos Luis M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- Camino Oliveras
Calle Cipresses Bz 5
Cabo Rojo, PR 00623
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N9696, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Ramos Luis M, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-5397 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9696 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1229, cancelled May 27, 1994); Stinson Aircraft Corp SM-4 (serial X-10, cancelled October 16, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N9696: Accident on April 29, 1993 at Hamilton, AL: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CALCULATE FUEL CONSUMPTION AT AN INCREASED POWER SETTING, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION AND LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. TREES AT THE FORCED LANDING AREA WERE A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data